New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

Perkins' Steam Generator. In some of our former numbers we noticed Mr. Perkins' newly discovered system of generating steam, by a lining placed within the boiler, thus effecting a continuous circulation of the heated water; the advantages anticipated were the generating steam with increased rapidity; the preservation of the boiler, and the saving of fuel. In proof of the great probability that the result will fully answer expectation, we are enabled to state, that during the last fourteen weeks, in which period Mr. Perkins has been engaged in the application of his principle on the Liverpool and Manchester railroad, one of the locomotive engines employed thereon, having his lining or circulator introduced into its boiler, has, during 360 successive journeys, to and fro, between Liverpool and Manchester, run upwards of 20,000 miles without the slightest appearance of wear and tear, the tubes of the boiler, at the end of the journey, being as free from corrosion as at the first moment of their use, and with a saving of fuel to the extent of 40 tons, when contrasted with the ascertained consumption of another locomotive engine drawing equal weight. These important results must prove of vital consequence to the great question of railway conveyance, which so much occupies the attention of the public at the present time.